Americas documents by Year:
Gunmen break into radio station in Brazil and shoot commentator in the leg
September 25, 2018 5:09 PM ET
São Paulo, September 25, 2018--Police in the Brazilian state of Ceará must act quickly to bring the gunmen who injured radio owner and commentator Sandoval Braga to justice and ensure the safety of employees at Radio União FM 96.5, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Online smear campaign targets freelance reporter in Nicaragua
September 25, 2018 4:51 PM ET
New York, September 25, 2018--Nicaraguan authorities should investigate a targeted online harassment campaign against freelance journalist Carl David Goette-Luciak, find those responsible, and ensure his safety, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Mexican journalist gunned down in Chiapas
September 24, 2018 4:32 PM ET
Mexico City, September 24, 2018--Mexican authorities must immediately undertake a rigorous and credible investigation into the killing of reporter Mario Leonel Gómez Sánchez in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Freelance reporter covering environmental activist's murder trial threatened in Honduras
September 19, 2018 6:30 PM ET
New York, September 19, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Honduran authorities to investigate threats against freelance journalist Nina Lakhani--who is in Honduras to cover the high-profile trial of eight men charged in the 2016 murder of indigenous environmental leader Berta Cáceres--and to ensure journalists are able...
Venezuelan freelance photographer detained, sent to military prison
September 7, 2018 5:55 PM ET
New York, September 7, 2018--Venezuelan authorities should immediately release and drop all charges against freelance photographer Jesus Medina Ezaine, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. A court in the capital Caracas on August 31 ordered Medina to military prison; he was detained August 29 after working on a...
CPJ calls on Mexico to fund journalist protection mechanism
September 4, 2018 6:01 PM ET
CPJ is deeply concerned about the imminent gap in financing that threatens the operation of the Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, and urges the Mexican federal government to take immediate action to guarantee continued and sufficient funding. The institution provides protective measures to over 700 journalists and human rights defenders.
Mexican cameraman killed in Quintana Roo
August 30, 2018 7:23 PM ET
Mexico City, August 30, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Mexican authorities to undertake an immediate and credible investigation into the killing of Javier Enrique Rodríguez Valladares, a cameraman for a local television broadcaster based in Cancún, in the southern Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Rodríguez Valladares was shot...
Nicaragua convicts two men in journalist's killing in trial criticized as unfair
August 29, 2018 6:27 PM ET
Bogotá, Colombia, August 29, 2018--A Nicaraguan court on August 27 found two men guilty in the shooting death of journalist Ángel Eduardo Gahona in a trial that the journalist's widow, defense lawyers, and human rights groups characterized as flawed. CPJ today called on authorities to conduct a transparent investigation...
Nicaraguan government launches campaign of harassment against Channel 10
August 24, 2018 4:23 PM ET
Bogotá, Colombia, August 24, 2018--The Nicaraguan government has launched a campaign of harassment against the independent TV station Channel 10, which has criticized President Daniel Ortega for ordering deadly attacks on anti-government protesters over the past four months, according to news reports....
Google complicity in Chinese censorship could endanger press freedom elsewhere
August 17, 2018 1:45 PM ET
In 2010, after four years of offering Chinese users a heavily censored version of its search engine, Google decided it would no longer block search results at the request of the Chinese state. "Our objection is to those forces of totalitarianism," Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, told The New York...